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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Standards Program
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ORNL, INL make deals on AI for nuclear licensing
The United States has tight new deadlines—18 months, max—for licensing commercial reactor designs. The Department of Energy is marshaling the nuclear expertise and high-performance computing assets of its national laboratories, in partnership with private tech companies, to develop generative AI tools and large-scale simulations that could help get nuclear reactor designs through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s licensing process—or the DOE’s own reactor pilot program. “Accelerate” and “streamline” are the verbs of choice in recent announcements from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory, as they describe plans with Atomic Canyon, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Technical Session|Sponsored by NCSD
Tuesday, November 15, 2022|1:00–2:45PM MST|Copperwood
Session Chair:
Angela Chambers
Alternate Chair:
Marsha Henley
Session Organizer:
Douglas G. Bowen
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Preliminary Chlorine Worth Study Benchmark Evaluation
1:00–1:20PM MST
Jeffrey A. Favorite (LANL), Theresa Cutler (LANL), Travis Grove (LANL)
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ORNL Neutron Cross Section Measurements of 90Zr
1:20–1:40PM MST
Klaus Guber (ORNL), Jesse Brown (ORNL), Carlos Paradela (EC-JRC Geel), Stefan Kopecky (EC-JRC Geel), Jan Heyse (EC-JRC Geel), Peter Schillebeeckx (EC-JRC Geel)
Four New Plutonium Thermal Epithermal eXperiments (TEX) Critical Configurations Optimized to Test Thermal Scattering Laws
1:40–2:00PM MST
C.M. Percher (LLNL), M.A. Lee (C.S. Engineering), R.G. Sanchez (LANL), T.J. Grove (LANL), J.M. Goda (LANL)
Presented by Jesse Norris (LLNL)
TEX-HEU: Baseline Assemblies Benchmark and Results, HEU-MET-MIXED-021
2:00–2:20PM MST
Jesse Norris (LLNL), David Heinrichs (LLNL), Catherine Percher (LLNL)
Design of Critical Experiments Targeting Epithermal Cross Sections of Tantalum
2:20–2:40PM MST
David E. Ames (Sandia), Gary A. Harms (Sandia), Elijah Lutz (Sandia)
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